Calculation of Helium Ground State Energy by Bohr's Theory-Based Methods

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that Bohr's model-based methods can accurately calculate the ground state energy of Helium, challenging the traditional view of electron clouds and providing a new computational approach.

Contribution

The authors introduce a novel computational method based on Bohr's theory to accurately determine Helium's ground state energy, incorporating electron orbital orientation.

Findings

Calculated Helium ground state energy as -79.005 eV.

Electrons move in defined orbits rather than clouds.

Method aligns with experimental energy values.

Abstract

Bohr's model agreed with the hydrogen spectrum results, but did not agree with the spectrum of Helium. Here we show that Bohr's model-based methods can calculate the experimental value (-79.005 eV) of Helium ground state energy correctly. we suppose the orbital planes of the two electrons are perpendicular to each other. By a computational method, we calculate the Coulomb force among the particles, and the number of de Broglie's waves contained in the short segment at short time intervals. Our results demonstrate that two electrons of Helium are actually moving around, not as electron clouds.